{"id":37028,"date":"2017-08-05T18:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37028"},"modified":"2017-08-05T18:02:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:02:33","slug":"so-you-want-to-major-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/so-you-want-to-major-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"So You Want to Major in English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Red wheel barrows, ice-cream emperors<\/p>\n<p>And Lucy half-hidden by a mossy stone\u2014<\/p>\n<p>English majors don\u2019t live by bread alone.<\/p>\n<p>Engineering pays more than half our rate,<\/p>\n<p>But Humanities more than compensate.<\/p>\n<p>Overlook those part-time jobs adjuncts fill.<\/p>\n<p>Our imaginations are rich as well as our will.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress\u2014try justifying a federal loan<\/p>\n<p>With a Ph. D\u2019s salary in English to live upon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Red wheel barrows, ice-cream emperors And Lucy half-hidden by a mossy stone\u2014 English majors don\u2019t live by bread alone. Engineering pays more than half our rate, But Humanities more than compensate. Overlook those part-time jobs adjuncts fill. Our imaginations are rich as well as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37039,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37028\/revisions\/37039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}